From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1616 invoked by alias); 12 Jul 2006 16:27:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 1583 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Jul 2006 16:27:10 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:27:06 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1G0hYG-0005xb-6m; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:27:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:27:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Steve Ellcey Cc: insight@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org, gdb@sourceware.org, sid@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Update configure in tk/tcl/itcl Message-ID: <20060712162704.GA22834@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Steve Ellcey , insight@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org, gdb@sourceware.org, sid@sourceware.org References: <200606201759.KAA00736@hpsje.cup.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200606201759.KAA00736@hpsje.cup.hp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 Mailing-List: contact sid-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: sid-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-q3/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 10:59:09AM -0700, Steve Ellcey wrote: > > The last three src subdirectories that still use the old autoconf 2.19 > are tk, tcl, and itcl. This patch is to update the autoconf used by > those subdirectories. Since dejagnu is no longer in the src tree I > believe that insight is the only user of these directories and according > to MAINTAINERS is the group that needs to approve this patch to use a > newer autoconf. I included gdb and binutils on the email to give it > more visibility and sid because they do show a dependency on tcl (in > CVSROOT/modules), though that may just be an old dejagnu depenency. > > The alpha versions of tk/tcl 8.5 use autoconf 2.59, as do the latest > itcl sources so updating our version in advance of those releases > shouldn't result in an long term ongoing maintanance issue. > > I tested these changes on hppa1.1-hp-hpux11.11 by building insight and > it built with no problems. > > Ok for checkin? Steve, did you ever get any response from this patch? I don't want to let the autoconf upgrade get stalled. I think it's reasonable to go ahead and commit this if none of the Insight maintainers explicitly object. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery